Gladys M Spratt (21 results)

Printed Wrappers. Condition: VG+. Vol 61, July 1940. Single issue of Girl's Own paper, magazine format, for July of 1940. Tow main features. Four complete stories. Five articles of Special Interest. Two Fashion features. Plus many more. Wartime but NO war content or even mention of the War. 8.25" by 11", pp433-456, plus 16pp adverts etc. Well illustrated. Clean, unmarked copy. Sound stapled binding. Scan available. Weight, 180g. Size: Quarto. Leslie H. Shepherd [cover] (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 8vo, 46pp, illustrated, internally OK, pictorial board covers, cloth tape spine strip worn and torn; overall Good condition.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition with no wrapper. A Little Book. Pictorial boards. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. 46 pages. Backstrip missing. Corners worn. Small nick to edge of front cover. Hinges pulled causing contents to be a little loose. Some grubby fingermarks and light foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Lumley, Peggy (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Lacking Dustjacket. Volume 43. Volume 43 in the celebrated annual series for Girls. iv, 671pp, illustrated, no color. Bright, clean interior in the main. Some tidy, neat coloring noted and pencil notes to the rear endpaper. Name & date, 1922, to fpde. Some cracking to the front hinge but still very tight and solid. A liitle wear to the cloth binding and to the paste-down illustration of the front boards. Titles and decoration to the spine are bright and unfaded. Somewhat better than an average copy. Heavy volume weighing 2.030kg. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. [Maximum postage to anywhere within Canada is now approx US$15.00- up to 5kg total weight, boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular parcels. Less will be charged if rates indicate].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. SOUGHT AFTER # 61 OF THIS GREAT ANNUAL. CONTAINS 4 MOST SPLENDID COLOUR PLATES INCL FRONTIS OF" DEANNA DURBIN one of the most popular girls in the world", "WINTER SPORTS ON THE HOME FRONT", 2 GIRLS ON A BICYCLE, "GETTING READY FOR WINTER". AND A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF B/W ILLUSTRATIONS. 504 PAGES. VERY CLEAN WITH SMALL XMAS NAME 1940 ON ffep. SOLID BINDING. FRONT BOARD HAS A 2 INCH FADED PEN MARK, A SLIGHT BUBBLING OF CLOTH IN ONE SPOT, WEAR AND A MINUTE TAER TO ONE CORNER, FRONT HINGE A TAD WEAK. DIRECT INQUIRIES ALWAYS WELCOMED. SCANS ON REQUEST. OVERSIZE FOR SHIPPING. THANKS. VARIOUS ARTISTS (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Volume 61 Only. Boards are shelf worn, with small stains and dents. Spine is faded with a small bit of cloth on top. Boards are strong and binding is secure. Damp straining on the bottom of the pages throughout. Also damp staining on the outside edges. All pages are accessible. Previous owners inscription of the front end page. Heavy, extra postage needed, unless posted within South Africa. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Thus. 4to. Undated but approx 1935. A very good copy, in tatty dw. Includes stories by L M Montgomery - the garden of spices; Minor discolouration to edges of blue cloth cover. Minor foxing to eps. dw torn at top, tail and fore edge, but title and illustration on front and advert on back still intact. Heavy book, will incur additional postage charge. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. Oversized. VOLUME 56 ONLY. No dustjacket; bound in dark green boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name/date on upper right edge of first endpaper (2"); minor wear to corners and edges of boards; hinges are tight, despite age; slight wear to page edges and corners; slight browning overall; slight foxing on bottom edge; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The boards are a bit worn and marked. Internally clean and soundly bound. Minor foxing and tanning. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. thick4to, 28cm., 576p., with 4 colour plates, numerous plates and illustrations, in the original full green cloth, gilt block titles and blind stamped panel decoration on the spine, blind title and wide blind decorated borders on the upper cover, illustrated endpapers, rear hinge deftly re-glued otherwise a very good to fine clean copy (gar). ~ Adventure stories mystery, school and sport, and interesting articles on handcrafts, hobbies.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Presumed first and only edition. 48pp, illustrated. Contents very clean with new matching endpapers. 167x121mm, in the original paper-covered boards, with plain back and attractive pictorial front, and a new cloth spine. A few minor marks to upper board, and slight wear to corners. Very nice copy.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Blue cloth boards, no dustwrapper; 624pp; four colour plates plus b/w ills to text. Boards are rubbed and worn to extremities, cloth is puckered, sunned and marked with cloth tape reinforcing front joint but obscuring part of spine title; internally much better condition with focing and light marking to endpapers, scattered to pages. Includes installations of Elsie Oxenham's 'Peggy and the Brotherhood'. Additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote.[123: Q1].…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards are worn and marked.Minor markings.Well bound.Good copy.Stories of mystery and school;Articles on handicrafts,hobbies,science,sport and travel.Fully illustrated in monochrome and with four coloured plates.Not suitable for airmail.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Girl's Own Little Books Series. Undated edition. Small format pictorial boards with cloth spine; 48pp; b/w ills. Spine has been replaced at some point; corners are rubbed and worn; endpapers tanned; foxing and light marking to a couple of pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Girl's Own Little Books Series. Undated edition. Small format pictorial boards with cloth spine; 47pp; b/w ills. Spine has been replaced at some point; tape marks to spine edge; corners are rubbed and worn with cracked corner tips; light foxing to cover, page block edges and prelims. Recipes include 'Hermit's Kisses' and 'Baby Dolls' as well as 'Give Your Friends a Scottish Tea'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1939] Blue Cloth Covers No Dust Jacket 624p. Cover worn, chipped and scuffed. Binding a bit loose and front hinge split with webbing showing but still holding. Named inside front end paper in heavy ink. Otherwise text very clean with no writing or colouring. Some foxing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 47pp. No date but c1930. Spine missing and v light soiling/shelf-wear mainly to back cover but o/w fine. Contents clean, tight and bright, a nice copy. 0.

Red cloth. 624 Pp.Fully Illustrated Stories include Schooldays at Home and Abroad in Canada by Betty Belle Robinson, Patch and a Pawn by Elsie Jeanette Oxenham; many articles on sports, art & crafts How We Went to the Wedding Janet's Rebellion & The Little Black Doll by L.M. Montgomery; Cloth worn, inner hinge crack, some foxing throughout. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 576 p. 28 cm. No publication or copyright date, but dated from volume number. Sound and square binding in blue, cloth-covered boards. Some wear to corners and edges. Spine darkened. A bit of staining and rubbing to both boards. Top edge of text block has some foxing. Previous owner's name in pencil on back side of frontispiece. Otherwise, inside pages are clean and unmarked with light toning. Dustwrapper has heavy wear to top edge and tail of spine, with paper loss at both spine ends and upper corners. Some creases, small stains, and edge tears. Spine darkened. White rear panel and folds have foxing. Not price-clipped. A scarce copy in dustjacket. Packed with stories, poetry, articles, interviews, crafts and activities for girls. Four full-colour plates. Issued since 1880 by the Religious Tract Society as an annual compilation of the Girl's Own Paper, this is one of the last of this series, which stopped publication in 1940 due to the war paper shortage. Will require extra postage due to weight.…

[circa 1940], 1st thus. (Cloth, 4to) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 479pp. Blue stamped cloth covers. Gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece. 6 full-colour plates icluding frontispiece. Slight sunning and shelf wear to covers and spine. Spine shows slight rubbing . All fore-edge corners as well as spine corners, head and tail, show wear-through, very slight. Only 1st print of Capt. Johns complete story available.…

Hardcover. 27.5cm, 4to. Iv,480p., with 6 colour plates & numerous plates and illustrations, in the original light blue green cloth, gilt spine titles, a few faint fade marks on the boards but a fine copy (igc). Includes the first appearance of "Worrals of the W.A.A.F.S.", complete in twelve parts, along with a two-page illustrated article "Captain W.E. Johns describes Life in the W.A.A.F." and four colour illustrations of women in wartime . "England Expects! A Member of the W.R.N.S." & "A Red Cross Nurse" & "One of the W.A.A.F.'s" & "An A.T.S. Girl". …